Snow, Winds, and Ice: Winter weather strikes South Sask.

People are out with shovels Thursday morning in Saskatchewan after a hefty snowfall.

The City of Regina says over 8 centimetres — or three inches — of snow fell from the latest snow dump on Dec. 18.

The City of Saskatoon said 10 centimetres — or four inches — of snow fell from that same snow event.

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However, Environment Canada’s Meteorologist Dan Fulton said it’s hard to say exactly how much snow fell because some gusty winds caused the snow to blow around a lot.

“We had some pretty strong winds in much of the province that were giving some pretty bad conditions, blowing snow. So it was a nasty little system, fairly fast-moving, and not exactly pleasant.”

The heaviest snowfall was recorded in southern Saskatchewan, in a band from Swift Current through Estevan, where roughly 10 to 20 centimetres — or roughly four to eight inches — of snow fell.

“It was a bit disorganized system in that there was not one big push of heavy snow. It lightened up, and then there were heavier things that came in behind it,” said Fulton.

Fulton explained only some of the province was not hit as hard with the snow as they were expecting, like in Regina.

“Some parts it did, we were thinking the 10 to 20 centimetres (or four to eight inches), which was reported south of the Trans Canada, which is pretty much what we were expecting.”

In southwestern Saskatchewan, Fulton said it dealt with snow and freezing rain.

“That’s another that made this a bit of a complicated system. The southwest had a pretty significant amount of freezing rain yesterday(Dec. 18), and I guess those roads were still pretty icy (on Dec. 19 in the morning), especially if it changed to snow after the freezing rain.”

Meanwhile, Fulton said there is more snow on tap on Friday

“It is another system that’s coming through; this one is quite a bit weaker, so we’re not expecting anything more than maybe three or four centimetres (one to one and a half inches) with this next one.”

However, Fulton said heading into the weekend before Christmas, it does not look like any snow systems will be rolling in.

“There’s not any weather of notes in the extended forecast, which is probably a good thing. Temperatures are kind of varying all over the place, but not super cold, and they do warm up a bit as we get into next week,” he added.

“Right now, we’re not seeing any systems on the horizon, so hopefully, we’re in for kind of a stretch of quiet weather as the people are travelling around a lot.”